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Short Stories - Literary Devises
Title:Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment_
Point of View:
first person
Protagonist:
Dr. Heidegger
What type of character is the Protagonist?
round and dynamic
Antagonist:
himself
Describe the setting
place- Dr. Heidegger’s study place
time- 1600s
mood- mysterious,gloomy, gray, old and dark
Type of Conflict:
Man vs man
Describe the main conflict:
The main conflict of the story is Dr. Heidegger trying to decide whether taking the water of youth is a good idea by experimenting and proving whether his hypothesis on the effects of the water is right.
Describe the Climax of the Story:
The climax of the story is the moment where Dr. Heidegger declares that he will not drink from the fountain of youth even if it were at hi door step.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
At first he thought that if the water from the fountain of youth was consumed he would have a chance to relive his life and do things right again, but after seeing his Friends making the exact mistakes as they have before in life. This makes him realise that it will not help him making the right decisions the second time through.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
The theme is about humans having a hard time to learn from their mistakes. The title Dr. Heidegger ‘s experiment is related to this because, he himself is trying to learn through this experiment that if people will be able to live their lives right if they were given a second chance
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?
The main conflict being trying to experiment and decide on the effects of the water of youth and whether he would take it, illustrates the theme because through this experiment he is able to draw conclusions that is not a good idea and make the right decision.
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?
The climax is where he decides that the water of youth will not let him make the right decisions again even if it gave him a second chance. This directly illustrates the theme, which is that humans are not likely to learn from their mistakes even if given a second chance.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
Simile:
gigantic magnoliaskept fresh as violets.
magnolias = fresh = violets
Metaphor:
she examined whether the snow had entirely melted from her hair.
gray hair = snow
Personification:
The brazen head of Hipporates frowned.
Symbol:
The dried rose symbolizes Widow Wycherly at her old age.
Foreshadowing (give both elements):
The rose that’s starts to whither foreshadows that the four who also took the water of youth will turn old again.
Irony:
The wife swallowing one of her lover’s prescriptions and dying on the bridal evening.
Imagery:
It was a dim, old fashioned chamber, festooned with cobwebs, and sprinkled with antique dust.
Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.__
Our class theme “humanity” relates to this story is about humans making decision and not learning from their mistakes. All humans make mistakes, but the ones who are able to learn from their past errors and take the right actions in the future will be the one successful in life.
RESPONDING
1. To see if the water of youth works on humans, and how they would relive their life.
2. All of Dr. Heidegger’s Friends are near death and have all had unfortunate lives. During the experiment their old habit come right back to them, even though they were warned to make guidelines for how to live the second chance.
3. He will not drink from the fountain of youth because after seeing his friend’s bad habits return, he thinks that he will do the same. He friends think that they should go find the fountain of youth and drink from it day and night. I feel that Dr. Heidegger made the right decision because there is no point in reliving life again if he could not make the right decisions and learn from his earlier mistakes.
4. The narrator is another person who know of these events.
He probably know of these event through a friend or maybe even Dr. Heidegger.
Also he is not really certain of his facts. In one passage it says :”If any passages of the present tales should startle the reader’s faith, i must be content to bear the stigma of a fiction-monger.” form that i can infer that he is not 100% sure of his facts.
5. At the start he makes examples of the different characters and how they wasted their youth or aging became their downfall. Such the colonel who wasted his youth in sinful desire or the politician who fell behind in the times. I agree to his points, defiantly spend your youth wisely and doing useful things. Aging takes aways from the human physical and mental features thus restricting many of the things one can do at old age.
7. No, at least not currently. in our current day and age that vaccine would drastically increase the population and decrease in resources. Maybe in the future when more efficient technology is developed and we find new places to inhabit, only then we have what is needed to support this change in human lifespan.
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Dr. Heidegger presentation
Great choice of metaphorical images in your presentation.
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